15 ideas
19579 | The history of philosophy is just experiments in how to do philosophy [Novalis] |
19583 | Philosophy only begins when it studies itself [Novalis] |
4037 | Ockham's Razor is the principle that we need reasons to believe in entities [Mellor/Oliver] |
19581 | A problem is a solid mass, which the mind must break up [Novalis] |
19584 | Whoever first counted to two must have seen the possibility of infinite counting [Novalis] |
22025 | Novalis thought self-consciousness cannot disclose 'being', because we are temporal creatures [Novalis, by Pinkard] |
4027 | Properties are respects in which particular objects may be alike or differ [Mellor/Oliver] |
4029 | Nominalists ask why we should postulate properties at all [Mellor/Oliver] |
22067 | Poetry is true idealism, and the self-consciousness of the universe [Novalis] |
4039 | Abstractions lack causes, effects and spatio-temporal locations [Mellor/Oliver] |
19585 | Every person has his own language [Novalis] |
19582 | Morality and philosophy are mutually dependent [Novalis] |
22027 | Life isn't given to us like a novel - we write the novel [Novalis] |
22251 | Liberalism may fail because it neglects the shared nature of what we pursue and protect [Haldane] |
19580 | If the pupil really yearns for the truth, they only need a hint [Novalis] |